I’m trying to get back into my Tutorial Tuesday posts, where I post an EQ tutorial every other Tuesday! I’d like to do more videos but we’re still waiting on fiber optic internet so for now I’ll do screenshots, which is actually tricky in wordpress, just takes a bit longer. I often see this question …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday- how to write a quilt pattern with EQ and MS word! Read More »
Have you heard of a Dear Jane Quilt? You can read about it here It’s a very interesting read. It’s a very lovely sampler quilt and looks at those borders!! WOW! The Jane A. Stickle quilt is now available for EQ software! Inspired by Brenda Manges Papadakis’ book Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns …
A while ago I was playing in EQ8 and thought about some new yardage I had and that I hadn’t used the storm at sea die since it was released by Accuquilt (I designed and made the grey and pink quilt they show with the die- might be the cover pattern too, can’t remember) So …
This week I’ve been doing a lot of cutting and prepping kits for myself and also sewing of course 🙂 Here I used tan and red scraps and the Accuquilt Pineapple die to cut out 6 blocks then red, tan and blue and the 10″ qube set to cut out setting blocks. I then used …
I started this scrappy quilt in May based off of this sketch I did in EQ, a simple Diamond in a star block and a Colorado block I made the blocks using the 6″ QUBE set and lots of scraps in teal/turquoise and grey, then solid white and solid blue Here’s some progress on the …
Do you ever have one of those days where you just want to CUT fabric?? The other day I was looking into making another mindless leader and ender project to work on between projects- we’ll see how long it lasts… So I flipped thru this scrap quilt book and had this one marked a while …
Are you ever inspired by quilts in a book and want to change it or copy it or change the block size/ colors/ number of blocks etc? I am OFTEN! and this is where EQ is SEW handy!! The other day I was flipping thru a scrappy quilt book, just because I wanted a new …
It’s time again for another EQ tutorial, this time I’ll do a picture tutorial again, as I haven’t had the time to record and edit anything- and having the house quiet to do it! I figured I’d do a tutorial on how I designed this kite quilt I recently finished I was inspired by a …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday- kite block ideas with serendipity blocks and randomize wand Read More »
I’ve been avoiding doing tutorials/videos for EQ8 as I couldn’t figure out how to easily do screenshots and copy paste them into a blog post without doing a whole lot of work, and videos require a quiet house and good internet, which I don’t have either- well hopefully in a few months we’ll have better …
I started this quilt in October. I’m sure it was inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s String quilt book I had bought recently, but I remember I also had a bunch of 8 1/2″ muslin squares AND a ton of grey scraps. So I decided to play in EQ8 and this is what I came up with …